The most successful harm reduction program in Baltimore City is the protective netting wrapping the Clarence Mitchell Courthouse

Found An Object from The Past

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 15,1946

Warren Zevon doing the air conditioner hum in Desperadoes Under the Eaves

He's going to team teach a course with Greg Bovino

The stars are all here in Baltimore this year

The JG Ballard of it all

The illustration on the back cover of Miles Davis's Live Evil looks like Trump's mother

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

JAZZ1.BMF

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

Song of the morning is When Palestine is Free by Momoko Gill

“A website for the group says they are inspired by the original Jewish Defense League, a group linked to numerous bombings and attempted assassinations of Arab American political activists in the 1970s and 1980s.”

Instagram getting more and more intrusive

You're trying to concentrate on an Italian string quarter play Locatelli's C major in the governor's music room in Port Mahon and this MF won't stop tapping his fucking feet

Profound metaphor alert lol

Moby, the New York ministrel show performer?

A LOT OF PROFESSIONALS ARE CRACKPOTS

Murdered by Hospice is absolutely incredible, these Yakubian apes need to be studied for science

Well, if yesterday's map was ridiculous, I'm running out of superlatives to characterize today's. Countless locations from Pacific Coast to Great Plains are currently experiencing all-time record March warmth, w/ some locations approaching/exceeding April (or even May) records.

If you use Affirm to buy a $6,000 turntable shaped like Al Di Meola's guitar your access to the SWIFT banking system should be cut off

We finally made birds cool

Yesterday may have been a weather bust overall but the wind was powerful enough to peel this cinderblock retaining (?) wall off the side of a vacant in the 1500 block of W. Baltimore

the state of israel, like apartheid south africa, like the jim crow south, like nazi germany, has determined that crimes against a certain type of person, no matter how heinous, aren't crimes because the victims are not people. there is no "but them first" defense of israel that can stand up to it

This Wire Mother talks weird

(tweeted from a bomb shelter)

Copspeak is moving in new directions

One of our nicknames for our middle cat Hazel is The Fangman Debonair

Since March 2025, at least 1,243 people, incl. 17 children, were killed by drone strikes carried out by #Haiti |an security forces and private contractors working with them. 👇

"Mr. Gritz claimed he had evidence that some P.O.W.s had never returned home, including photographs and human remains. He was profiled in magazines and invited to testify before Congress. "But the remains proved to be those of an Asian man and a chicken."

Former Fukushima worker devotes life to abandoned pets. Not far from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, former plant worker Toru Akama tends to dozens of pets abandoned after the catastrophe 15 years ago, work he sees as part of his quest for redemption u.afp.com/SuCM

Next year in Al Quds!

The first job postings for the Williamsport, Md. ICE detention warehouse appeared online. The “humanitarian response” firm behind them has never held a federal contract.

We used to have actual, brave political comedy in this country

Ethel Mannin’s AN AMERICAN JOURNEY is being republished in May by Boiler House Press thanks to Brad Bigelow who is the force behind @neglectedbooks.com There is a story here: Back in 2023, I had been posting photos from my trips on the Greyhound bus. Brad saw them & got in touch asking if I… (1)

Listening to an audiobook of Virtual Light I downloaded from IA and look at this great example of that early 90s angular/forced perspective art style, dunno if it has a name

Condi Rice, the Stanford Sovietologist?

We used to have actual, brave political comedy in this country

Said goodbye to Oleg this morning, he was a Very Good Cat beautifully captured in ink by @redjess.bsky.social almost ten years ago now

Baltimore folks: anybody have a home pet euthanasia service they've had a good experience with?

Third largest magazine in the US by circulation!

My grandkids don't want any of my precious objects

meanwhile, war rages on at home.